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Swiss Data Journalists win an important battle: documents from non-Parliamentary ad-hoc committees are re-usable PSI!

published 2012-05-14 20:44

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Thesaurus terms: Switzerland, parliamentary data, access rights, summary, complete data
Regulatory Body: Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland (Bundesverwaltungsgericht)
Jurisdiction: Swiss federal decision
Legal provisions concerned:
- Public Access Law (Öffentlichkeitsgesetz) (Switzerland)
Case identifier: Case No. A1135/2011 (Claudia Schreiber vs Federal Office for Agriculture (Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft, BLW)
Date: 7 December 2011

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The postcode saga continues: Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post

published 2012-05-08 17:44

Canada Post has filed a complaint against Geolytica, the company that exploits Geocoder.ca, claiming that Geocoder.ca infringes the copyright it has on its Canadian postcodes database. Depending on the final decision of the court, the postcodes database will become freely available for re-use, or the use of postcodes may become problematic for many Canadian businesses.

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Dutch national road database finally available for commercial re-use

published 2012-05-08 17:39

In a summary proceedings, the Dutch Court of ‘s Hertogenbosch refused to impose Falkplan’s request for an injunction on the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment to refrain from making available the national road database for re-use without any conditions, including for commercial purposes.

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Dutch Postcodes Case

published 2012-02-22 16:24

From 1 February 2012 onwards, the Dutch postcodes will be available for any type of use. PostNL, the holder of the postcode database, tried to prevent this in court, but the court decided that the postcodes should also be made available for re-use.

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Californian Supreme Court to decide whether county GIS is a public record

published 2012-02-13 10:46

In 2009, the California First Amendment Coalition requested a copy of the parcel base map of Santa Clara County on the basis of the Public Records Act (California’s Freedom of Information Act). The court found that this geographic database was a public record under the PRA and ordered the County to make the data available at the cost of duplication and without restrictions on it use.

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